Intel Shipping GPU-Competitor Chips: Xeon Phi

November 13, 2012 | On Monday, Intel announced it is shipping its Xeon Phi products--a product line specifically targeting competition from NVIDIA and AMD. The Xeon Phi chips are packaged on discrete graphics-like cards and are built to work with Intel's Xeon E5 family of server and workstation CPUs. Intel is now shipping to partners in the high performance computing and supercomputing segments and the products will be generally available in late January 2013. PC Magazine